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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free
How to generate funding for free and open source software.
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Who Must You Trust?
You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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A Primer on Provenance
Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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Center Wheel For Success
"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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Toward Software-Defined SLAs
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.
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Barbarians at the Gateways
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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The Antifragile Organization
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
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Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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